It's Monday, it's a new week, and while we won't pretend to know everything that's going to happen over the next seven days, we have some sense of what's coming up.

Here's your briefing on some of the most important and interesting stories happening in the week ahead.

1) A strike for equality

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City council employees Gillian Docherty, Shona Thomson and Eileen Dougall will be on strike

What's happening?

About 8,000 women in Glasgow are going on strike for equal pay on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Why does it matter?

Ten months of talks between unions and Glasgow's city council failed to come to a solution and now thousands of care workers, school cleaners, caterers and other female council workers are to walk out of their jobs.

The Unison trade union says it is the largest industrial action of its kind in the UK in more than 40 years, since the Ford machinists' strike, which was depicted in the film Made In Dagenham.

The city council has criticised the plans to strike, and said the unions' timeline for an agreement was unrealistic.

4) Brazil decides

The world's fifth most populous country will vote for its next president in the second round of its election on Sunday.

Why does it matter?

There's a lot at stake in the race to head up the country of more than 200 million people.

Far-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro is leading the polls. He's a former army captain and has been condemned as sexist (he once said he wouldn't employ a woman on the same salary as a man as she might get pregnant) and homophobic (he said he couldn't love his son if he was gay).

But his tough-on-crime stance is appealing to many. Leftist Workers Party candidate Fernando Haddad, a former mayor of São Paulo, Brazil's biggest city, is his opponent.

5) Times a'changin'

What's happening?

Clocks go back an hour across the European Union at 01:00 GMT on Sunday. On most of the continent local time will change to 02:00. In the UK and Portugal, it will become 01:00 - the same as GMT.

Why does it matter?

Well, unless you want to turn up an hour early for meetings for the next six months, it probably ought to matter to you.